Why is it so common to join extremes without watching a guide first?

[ArchlordPie]

Wha? How does assigning "just in case" stuff before a blind pull make it any less blind? You're still going to wipe to the mechanic either way because you won't know thst you need stacks there for example, until after dying to it...?

All it's doing is saving you time so you can just immediately pull again since you did assignments in the beginning.

Is it really saving time to assign positions prior to pulling instead of between wipes? Either way you still need to assign positions, and nothing's preventing people from going "oops i forgot my position, can we redo them real fast" and causing the group to have to assign positions twice in the end.

Also, choosing as a group to assign positions before pulling does not make a pull any less blind. Someone coming in to a blind run and trying to assign partners before we've pulled, because he knows partners are needed, is what makes the run less blind, and that's what I kicked him for.